The English won the naval battle handily, aided by some fortuitous inclement English Channel weather, and emerged as the world's strongest naval power, setting the stage for later English imperial designs. Elizabeth was a master of political science. She inherited her father's supremacist view of the monarchy, but showed great wisdom by refusing to directly antagonize Parliament. She acquired undying devotion from her advisement council, who were constantly perplexed by her habit of waiting to the last minute to make decisions (this was not a deficiency in her makeup, but a tactic that she used to advantage). She used the various factions (instead of being used by them), playing one off another until the exhausted combatants came to her for resolution of their grievances. Few English monarchs enjoyed such political power, while still maintaining the devotion of the whole of English society (Elizabeth I (1558-1603 AD) a Queen with…...

On the other hand, contributions in music were extremely important, some judging that, during this period, "in music, Elizabethan England led the world." Starting by first adapting the Italian madrigals, the English music discovery continued with its own madrigals, as well as a continued tradition in church music. Instrumental music was also greatly encouraged, as was the composing genius of the likes of William yrd or Thomas Tallis.

Literature has been left at the end, because the contributions made to Renaissance during Elizabeth's reign are inestimable. Shakespeare is probably the world's greatest playwright and the first name that reasonably comes to mind, but he was joined in the expression of an English literary spirit by the likes of Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe or en Johnson, all succeeding in creating masterpieces that not only influenced their own times, but also viewers, readers and other writers for centuries to come.

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1. Smith, Goldwin. A History of England. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Third Edition. 1966

2. Was Queen Elizabeth I. An ideal renaissance ruler? October 2001. On the Internet at   retrieved on February 20, 2008http://www.daria.no/skole/?tekst=1247.Last 

Smith, Goldwin. A History of England. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Third Edition. 1966. Page 262.

Was Queen Elizabeth I. An ideal renaissance ruler? October 2001. On the Internet at

That is, Elizabeth I considered her decision to make England mainly a Protestant nation is a political strategy to promote the rational and economic-minded perspective adopted by Protestantism.
From both Elizabeth's and Mary's religio-political strategies, it becomes apparent that the Church and State are inevitably linked, for it is the leader's value and belief systems that affect and influences political decisions. Therefore, political judgment and decisions are based on the context of the individual's / leader's system of values and beliefs.

The statement, "all men need something bigger than themselves to look up to and worship" demonstrates not only Elizabeth as a leader, but English society (in general) governed by the monarchy. This statement illustrates that while humanity seeks an ideal and model idol-leader to look up to, the presence of an individual committed and willing to take on the problems of civil society is enough for humanity or a society…...

Anna hitelock. The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.
Before encountering Anna hitelock's The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court, few readers would have known anything about the private life of the English monarch. Those who wished to know might have unearthed numerous primary and secondary sources speculating on the Queen's private life, but none that covered the topic in as much detail, totality, or integrity as hitelock achieves in The Queen's Bed. This book offers readers an impressive analysis of why Elizabeth's private life is important from a historical standpoint, showing how her private life offers clues to the queen's character and to the historical and political context in which she lived. Moreover, hitelock shows how the private life of the queen became the source of scandal and rumor linked to overarching attempts to dethrone her; attempts related to domestic…...

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Anna Whitelock. The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.

Catherine the Great vs. Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England and Catherine II or Catherine the Great of Russia were both of noble birth. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second queen, Anne oleyn (911 Encyclopedia 2004). She was born on September 7, 1533 at Greenwich Palace almost 200 years before the birth of Catherine the Great of Russia. Elizabeth's death was met with much frustration and bitterness by her parents who wanted a male who could inherit the throne. Her parents' marriage was considered invalid ab initio under Roman or English canon law, which did not allow her father to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne oleyn, Elizabeth's mother. Anne was also charged with adultery, owing to her pre-contract with Lord Percy and Henry's previous relationship with Anne's sister, Mary oleyn. With Anne's inability to provide a surviving male heir to Henry, she was…...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Alexander, John T. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. Oxford University Press, 1989

2. Erickson, Carolly. Great Catherine: the Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. NT, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1994

3. LovetoKnow. Queen of England Elizabeth. 1911 Online Encyclopedia, 2004.  http://48.1911encyclopedia.org/E/ELIZABETH_QUEEN_OF_ENGLAND.htm 

4. Smirnov, Serge. Catherine the Great. Fingerhut Group Publishers, Inc.,  http://www.fingerhutart.com/smirnov_catherine_info.htm

Queen Victoria's legacy was to retain the strength of the British monarchy in spite of social and political reform, to rule with conservative values in spite of a growing trend of liberalism in her country, and to expand the political and territorial claims of the British Empire in a world that was becoming increasingly suspicious of colonialism. Queen Victoria emerges as a complex character, based on her numerous biographies and her own personal letters. Because of her position in recent history, much is known about Victoria, her life, and her times.
Victoria ascended to the throne in 1837 and married Prince Albert a few years after. Although Victoria began her political career as a liberal, she grew increasingly more conservative in her views due mainly to the influence of her husband. However, Albert died in 1861, leaving the Queen in a state of emotional chaos. She secluded herself and remained in…...

Therefore, this information is identifying how: specific events and attributes would shape the kind of queen she became in the future. As the information is helping t: tie all of these different events together, in association with the other articles that were discussed earlier.
The Life of Elizabeth I

Over the years, there are those leaders who have such a profound impact that they can change the course of a nation forever. Such is the case with Elizabeth I of England, as she is considered to be one of the greatest leaders in all of ritish history. This is because she assumed power at time when the country was at its weakest point. What happened was England became known a pawn between: the rival powers of France and Spain. Where, both nations had made: a tremendous number of discoveries in new world and they were competing with each for access to…...

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Elizabeth I. (n.d.). Hyper History. Retrieved from:  http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/elizabeth.html 

Elizabeth I. (n.d.) Tudor Place. Retrieved from:  http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutElizabeth.htm 

Elizabeth I. (2011). History Learning Site. Retrieved from:  http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/elizabeth_i.htm 

Queen Elizabeth I of England. (2005). Kings College. Retrieved from:  http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/elizabeth.html

Stephen obin's Leadership Models: Assessment of Film Queen Elizabeth I
What is the leadership-effectiveness model?

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After watching the 1998 movie "Elizabeth," this paper was written which to shortly examine the make of her according to obin's leadership model. An extremely astute, intelligent and most extraordinary irregularity of her time question of whether Elizabeth should be considered the great model of leadership most would, Elizabeth rose to power and prospered in bonding her people. This monarch did this without husband or successor, was an extraordinary writer who was able to utilize her words in order to gain power and had an age named after her. She was the virtuous and carried herself as ethical symbol to which many would more than likely assign the title "great leader." It was clear from the viewpoint of the movie she was effective in her capability…...

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References

Clemens, J. & W.M., 2000. Movies to manage by: Lessons in leadership from great films. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

Elizabeth I. 1998. [Film] Directed by Shekhar Kapur. United Kingdom: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.

English, F. & S.B., 1997. Using Film to Teach Leadership in Educational Administration.. Educational Administration Quarterly, 33(1), pp. 107-125.

Herrington, J.O.R. & R.T.C., 2009. Patterns of engagement in authentic online. Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 19(1), pp. 59-71.

Faerie Queen
Edmund Spenser opens, prefaces, and introduces The Faerie Queen with a letter addressed to Sir alter Raleigh. In this letter, Spenser outlines his intention behind writing the epic poem, "hich For That It Giveth Great Light to The Reader." Spenser writes, "The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." To accomplish this goal, The Faerie Queen features "the historye of King Arthure, as most fitte for the excellency of his person, being made famous by many mens former workes, and also furthest from the daunger of envy, and suspition of present time." Spenser thus explains why The Faerie Queen alludes to the Arthurian legends; the hearkening to the past is no small accident. The author hopes to engender in the reader a sense of lofty ambition, hope, and courage that the Arthurian legend represents. In so…...

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Jusserand, J.J. Spenser's "Twelve Private Morall Vertues as Aristotle Hath Devised" Modern Philology. Vol. 3 No. 3. 1906.

Nestrick, William V. "The Virtuous and Gentle Discipline of Gentlemen and Poets." ELH. Vol. 29, No. 4, 1962.

Neuse, Richard. "Book VI as Conclusion to The Faerie Queen." ELH. Vol. 35, No. 3. P. 329-353.

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queen. 1589. Retrieved online:  http://www.bartleby.com/39/14.html

Then she suffered them, with her two women, to disrobe her of her chain of pomander beads and all other her apparel most willingly, and with joy rather than sorrow, helped to make unready herself, putting on a pair of sleeves with her own hands which they had pulled off, and that with some haste, as if she had longed to be gone.
All this time they were pulling off her apparel, she never changed her countenance, but with smiling cheer she uttered these words, 'that she never had such grooms to make her unready, and that she never put off her clothes before such a company.'

Then she, being stripped of all her apparel saving her petticoat and kirtle, her two women beholding her made great lamentation, and crying and crossing themselves prayed in Latin. She, turning herself to them, embracing them, said these words in French, 'Ne crie vous,…...

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Adamson, John. "The queen ruled by others Traitor to some, martyr to others - John Adamson on the extraordinary life of Mary Queen of Scots," the Sunday Telegraph London, January 4, 2004. 22 July 2008  http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8914626.html .

Colburn H.; Strickland, Mary Agnes. 1845; Digitized Sep. 6, 2005. Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots: Now First Published from the Original. Harvard University. 22 July 2008  http://books.google.com/books?id=lttUoiwDd5AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mary,+ueen+of+Scots .

The Columbia World of Quotations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 22 July 2008  http://www.bartleby.com/66/85/38185.html .

Fraser, Lady Antonia, 2008.. "Mary Queen of Scotland." Encyclopedia Britannica 22 July 2008   -- %20Britannica%20Online%20Encyclopedia.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/367467/Mary#tab=active~checked%2Citms~checked&title=Mary%20 

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
The publication in 2008 of ords in Air: The Collected Correspondence of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop offers the reader a privileged glimpse into the long and emotional friendship between two major postwar American poets, who were each an active influence on the other's work. Bishop would enclose a poem in a 1961 letter to Lowell, claiming the draft "undoubtedly shows your influence" but also noting that "I'll probably make more changes" (ords in Air, 379). In a 1964 interview, Robert Lowell would claim Bishop as one of "the poets who most directly influenced me." (Kunitz 86). Indeed Travisano notes in his introduction to the letters that "Lowell's Life Studies and For the Union Dead, his most enduringly popular books, were written under Bishop's direct influence, as the letters make clear" (ords in Air, xviii). But those two titles mark a major shift in Lowell's style,…...

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Bishop, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems, 1927-1979. New York: Farrar Straus, 1984. Print.

Costello, Bonnie. Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. Print.

Gilbert, Sandra. "Mephistophilis in Maine: Rereading Skunk Hour." In Axelrod, Steven Gould and Deese, Helen. (Editors). Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Print.

Hamilton, Saskia. The Letters of Robert Lowell. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2005. Print.

Elizabeth I-Movie
Since the invention of cinema in the twentieth century one of the favorite subjects of the moviemakers has been to spread out historic myths and events. The movie Elizabeth released on 13th November 1998 is directed by Shehkar Kapoor. The film is of 124 minutes long. It is the story of Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled England for 45 years from 1558 to 1603. Role of Elizabeth is played by Cate lanchett. The period shown in the film is mid sixteen century and the location is England. The film is about how Elizabeth I got to the throne, the early days of her struggle as queen of England and Ireland and the troubles she faced to maintain her reign. The film may be categorized as history and romance.

The film begins in the last days of Queen Mary, who was a fanatic Catholic as a result there was tussle between…...

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Bibliography

Kent, James D. "Elizabeth I and the limits of privatization" Journal: Public Administration Review. Volume: 58. Issue: 2. 1998

Palmer, Michael "Elizabeth I." B.T. Bats ford Limited, London, 1988

Shehkar Kapoor is an Indian Film Director, and was nominated for Oscar on his Screen portray of Elizabeth.

Queen Mary was also half sister of Elizabeth I.

" It is she who meets with Arthur and brings him to the rescue of her Knight.
But although he is good and true, the Red Cross night is not perfect, he can be defeated without help from God and the name of Arthur who represents England's great past, and the vision of his queen. Significantly, Arthur's glory and victory over Orgoglio comes not through military might, but through showing the evil giant his shield, which blinds Orgoglio with its goodness, shining like a mirrored diamond of purity and a vision of true faith. The victory of Arthur thus is of right, not simply of might, and a connection between Elizabeth, her Red Knight, and England's glory days of yore and true faith. Arthur's victory shows that England's past was not Catholic, but pre-Catholic, an England of a purer faith that Elizabeth seeks to restore as England's…...

Certainly, the reign of Elizabeth I "was indeed the Golden Age of England," due to her personality, love for her country and the adoration of millions of Englishmen and women, not to mention several foreign kings and rulers who during her lifetime were bitter enemies, but following her death became ardent admirers ("Death of Queen Elizabeth I," Internet).
In 1588, some fifteen years before her death, Elizabeth I gave a speech to her faithful and loyal troops at Tilbury camp, where she arrived "in a great gilded coach and was escorted by 2000 ecstatic troops." James Aske, an eyewitness to this event, describes Elizabeth as "king-like and a sacred general" just before she began to address those in presence with "one of the greatest orations of British history, all the more extraordinary for being delivered at a moment of such trepidation." This speech truly reflects the atmosphere of Elizabeth's reign…...

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Death of Queen Elizabeth I." Elizabethan Era. Internet. 2007. Retrieved at  http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/death-of-queen-elizabeth-i.htm .

MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603. New York: Princeton

University Press, 1994.

Schama, Simon. A History of Britain at the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 a.D. New York: Hyperion Press, 2000.

(Ng, 1994, p. 93)
The philosophy of Confucius was based essentially on that of human relationships expanded to the sphere of the state, and even beyond into the cosmos. ight conduct and proper action among individuals and groups would result in an ordered universe, one that operated according to the proper laws. By cultivating these believes and following these rules one could hope to produce a society that was perfectly ordered and self-perpetuating. The Confucian ideal of leadership has endured today among many, not only in China, but in many parts of East Asia, and has even attracted followers in the West, for it addresses the issue of responsibility as a metaphor for virtue and harmony.

Far less idealistic were the ideas of the enaissance thinker, Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli lived in Italy at a time when its various princes were contending for power. The region was riven by war and consumed…...

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Bassnett, S. (1988). Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective. Oxford: Berg Publishers.

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Hanh, T.N. (2000). Three Zen Buddhist Ethics. In Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values (pp. 98-140). New York: Seven Bridges Press.

Elizabethan Themes and the Social and Political Climate

The Elizabethan era, marked by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558 to 1603, was a period of great cultural and intellectual flourishing in England. Literary works from this time, often referred to as Elizabethan literature, reflected the complex social and political landscape of the era.

National Identity and Patriotism

One of the most prominent Elizabethan themes was national identity and patriotism. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 strengthened England's position as a major European power and instilled a sense of national pride. This was evident in works such as Edmund Spenser's....